They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”

Every woman will ask her neighbor and the one who happens to be staying in her house for items of silver and gold and for clothing. You will put these articles on your sons and daughters – thus you will plunder Egypt!”

Jethro rejoiced because of all the good that the Lord had done for Israel, whom he had delivered from the hand of Egypt.

If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, “and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.

that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death.”

I rescued you from Egypt’s power and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.

The Israelites did not remain true to the Lord their God, who had delivered them from all the enemies who lived around them.

But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!”

Too bad for us! Who can deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all sorts of plagues in the desert!

So the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.

You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.

In the same way that I valued your life this day, may the Lord value my life and deliver me from all danger.”

Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

Yes! The king may listen and deliver his female servant from the hand of the man who seeks to remove both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’

David sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord rescued him from the power of all his enemies, including Saul.

This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you from my hand!

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Indeed, did any gods rescue Samaria from my power?

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. Do you really think you will be rescued?

Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods?